Exhibition “Dịch / Dời: Narratives of Displacement”

Opening: Fri 18 Dec 2015, 6.30 pm
Exhibition: 18 – 25 Dec 2015
Six Space

From the organizer:

Come to exhibition “Narratives of Displacement and Translation” – a group exhibition curated by Do Tuong Linh with the participation of:

Giang Hoàng Nguyễn
Kenny Nguyễn
Chi Nguyễn
Cát Nguyên
Linh Trịnh

This exhibition marks the debut of most of the artists in Vietnam’s art world after a period of self-negotiation and readapting after being abroad. Against the stereotypes of being artist who live in between two cultures and could be subjected to ‘Westernization’ of their art making, each of them has tried to negotiate themselves between cultures to find their distinct voices in many different ways. Nonetheless they all share the interest in drawing and illustration – a very intimate and flexible medium as a way to record this personal transition.

As Trinh T Minh Ha said “If it’s hard to be a stranger, it is even more so to stop being one” in her amazing essay “Other than myself / My other self” and as Julia Kristeva noted “A person of the twentieth century can exist honestly only as a foreigner”. In this constantly changing time, it’s easy to find ourselves always moving from one culture to another even right inside our homeland. That means we will always being stranger wherever we go, or even if we don’t go anywhere. Rootlessness and nomadicity is an integral part of young people living in our time regardless of their nationality and origins. Hence the artists have turned to drawing a very intimate and flexible medium as a remedy for their own.

Come and enjoy the opening reception of “Dịch / Dời: Narratives of Displacement” this Friday as well as the series of events after such as artists’ talk and workshops. This is part of the first show in an upcoming art project questioning and challenging different perspectives of fine arts discipline spanning from 2015 to 2016.